The Digital Rights Feed

When Edward Snowdon's NSA leaks made the headlines in 2013, Berliners, like millions of people around the world, began questioning what happened to the internet we were once promised: a free, open, safe and anonymous place to communicate and share.

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, will deliver much more than an email assault, however, as it has been described as “the most comprehensive piece of privacy legislation” in the world and is designed to give consumers significantly more rights about what social

Senior bureaucrats responsible for the proposed rollout of a national facial recognition scheme have tried to allay fears it could lead to mass surveillance. Human rights organisations are concerned the system will be too broad and its safeguards too weak, risking the privacy of Australians.

For the last few years, police forces around China have invested heavily to build the world's largest video surveillance and facial recognition system, incorporating more than 170 million cameras so far. In a December test of the dragnet in Guiyang, a city of 4.

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Moves in Australia for new powers to access encrypted communications will diminish online security for everyone and aren’t necessary for law enforcement, Monique Mann, Adam Molnar and Angela Daly write.

Google's unofficial motto has long been the simple phrase "don't be evil." But that's over, according to the code of conduct that Google distributes to its employees. The phrase was removed sometime in late April or early May, archives hosted by the Wayback Machine show.

Tuesday, 15 May 2018 Australian Greens Digital Rights spokesperson Senator Jordon Steele-John has backed calls for an immediate overhaul of digital rights protections in Australia in the face of eroding online privacy and the rise of surveillance capitalism, following the release of Digital Rights

In a monumental decision that will resonate through election season, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday voted 52-47 to reinstate the net neutrality protections the Federal Communications Commission decided to repeal last December.

If you use PGP or S/MIME for email encryption you should immediately disable it in your email client. Researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability they're calling EFAIL that exposes the encrypted emails in plaintext, even for messages sent in the past.

Victorian privacy commissioner Rachel Dixon has commissioned critical advice for public servants from three Melbourne academics who have worked hard to raise awareness of the risk that individuals can be re-identified from open data publications.

The Federal Government is pushing ahead with its plans to create an electronic health record for every Australian. Personal patient details will be stored on a national database that doctors around the country can see.

If you’re a Gmail user, your messages and emails likely aren’t as private as you’d think. Google reads each and every one (even if you definitely don’t), scanning your painfully long email chains and vacation responders in order to collect more data on you.

These GDPR emails we’ve all been getting have got me thinking. I’m not an organisation, but just by dint of having used the internet for a bit I hold a lot of other people’s personal information. We all do. I’ve therefore updating my privacy policy and terms of service.

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Almost all airline passengers will be body scanned before boarding flights and police will be given new powers to request identification from anyone they deem suspicious in changes to airport security across Australia.

LOCALS are far from convinced by the state government’s push to roll-out digital drivers’ licences in NSW. An online poll conducted by The Leader found 44 per cent of respondents said they wouldn’t prefer a digital version of their licence accessible through a mobile phone.

From microchip implants to wristband trackers and sensors that can detect fatigue and depression, new technology is enabling employers to watch staff in more and more intrusive ways. How worried should we be? Last year an American company microchipped dozens of its workers.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims said he was briefed recently by US experts who had intercepted, copied and decrypted messages sent back to Google from mobiles running on the company’s Android operating system.

It even tracks us in the real world. Then it sells us out to corporations, scammers -- just about anyone. Mark Zuckerberg has said he built Facebook to "get access to information about anyone." Now, he says he wants to "do more to keep us safe.

My lounge room is bugged. My phone is broadcasting an ultrasonic signal to my blu-ray player via an acoustic side channel beyond human hearing. The channel networks the two devices, similar to how a dial-up connection used to get our computers online before the days of the NBN.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission said in a notice on Thursday that landmark 2015 U.S. open-internet rules will cease on June 11, and new rules handing providers power over what content consumers can access will take effect.

Millions of people received an email from Twitter last week advising them to change their password. Apparently a bug allowed some employees inside the company to see users' passwords in plain text, creating the possibility that private information could be compromised.

Dedicated Apple site 9to5Mac reports that the company has recently been removing apps that are sharing location data with third parties and sending the app developers a notice that the app is violating two different parts of the App Store Review Guidelines.

The federal government plans to spend about $600 million on a suite of diverse initiatives labelled as “delivering Australia’s digital future” in this year’s budget, including $92.4 million this financial year on “accelerated implementation” of its GovPass digital identity solution.

Next week is Digital Privacy Awareness Week. The issue of digital privacy has been a significant one in recent times as privacy breaches such as the one involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have been under public scrutiny.

There’s a lot more to privacy than occasionally clearing your browser history. The more we plug into the networks that run our lives, the more we compromise our privacy for the sake of convenience. Privacy is a human right that affects how we behave, develop as a society, and protect ourselves.

Facebook’s failure to compel Cambridge Analytica to delete all traces of data from its servers – including any “derivatives” – enabled the company to retain predictive models derived from millions of social media profiles throughout the US presidential election, the Guardian can reveal.

The 2017 call records tally remained far less than an estimated billions of records collected per day under the NSA's old bulk surveillance system, which was exposed by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.